THE TOWN OF RYE. T59 



Patent and that ( hey and the Record of them in onr Secretary's office of o«r 

 Province of New Fork, shall be good and Effectual in the Law Notwithstanding 

 the not true and well reciting of the premises or of the bounds thereof or of any 

 former or other Letteis Patent or Grant for the same made or granted to any 

 other person or persons Body Corporate or Politick whatsoever by us or any of 

 our Royal! ancestors or predecessors any Lav,* or other restraint uncertainity or 

 imperfect ion whatsoever to the contrary hereof in any ways Notwithstanding. In 

 Testimony whereat wee have caused the great seal of our Province of New York 

 aforesaid to be affixed to these presents and the same to be Entered of Record in 

 one of the Books of Patents in our said Secretary's office remaining Witness our 

 said Trusty and well-beloved Colonel Peter Schuyler President of our Councill 

 for our Province of New York in Councill at Fort George in New York the 

 twenty-eight Day of July in the sixth year of our Reign Annoq Domini 1720. 



JS. BOLIN, Deptv Sec-y-a 



The Budd or Rye neck patent was subsequently divided among the 

 following proprietors, viz. James Gedney, 102 acres; Daniel Purdy, 

 drummer of Rye, 40 acres; John Carpenter, a portion joining Mama- 

 roneck river ; Mr. William Bowness, of Rye, 2 acres ; that portion 

 called the Gusset to Joseph Ogden ; a second of 30 acres to Joseph 

 Lyon; Daniel Purdy, 3 acres; Monmouth Hart, 15 acres; James 

 Wood, 5 acres; Archibald Tilford, iS acres; The residue to John 

 Budd. 



25 March, 1745. Peter Jay leased of John Budd 250 acres, and ob- 

 tained a release for the same the succeeding day. & 



The name of John Roome occurs as lessee for the whole patent, of 

 1560 acres, the same year. 



4 September, 1746. Peter Jay purchased four acres of meadow on 

 Hen Island of Monmouth Hart. c 



The partition deed between Sir James Jay, Peter Jay, John Jay and 

 Frederick Jay, sons of Peter deceased, recites "that Peter Jay deceased 

 devised all his real estate to his four sons, and conveyed in severalty to 

 Peter Jay the Rye farm, as conveyed by John Budd to Peter Jay de- 

 ceased by lease and release of 25th and 26th of March, 1745.-- 



The Jays have since added to their original grant by other purchases 

 from the families of the Harts, Gedneys, Guions, and Haines, &c. 



Peter Jay by will bearing date, 1st September, 1797, devised all his 

 real estate to his brother John Jay, who thereupon became seized of the 

 whole premises in severalty. The Hon. John Jay by a deed, dated 16th 



a Albany Book of Patents, Lib. via, p, 375 and 3S7, 461, 



6 County riec. Lib. K, 132, 133, 128. 



c Co. Rec. Lib. R, 138. 



d Extract from <1 (taction of title, in possession of John C Jay, Esq. 



